Hola y'all!
Week
two in Chalmette has been a blast! So it started off with the day after
last P-Day. That is when Harvey hit our area the hardest and so we went
on a self-imposed lock-down because it rained all day and half or the
roads were flooded so we had fun as a Quadship playing games and putting
together puzzles! All in all it was a nice day and a well needed break
:)
Friday
Israelsen and I went out tracting in the Village! That is where we do
most of our work because that is where the highest concentration of
Spanish speakers are located. We didn't have much success teaching anyone
there but we did have a good time! At one door there was this HUGE
hornet right on the door and it wasn't moving. Israelsen and I look at
each other and we both HATE hornets but he says "Knock for Jesus" and
walks up the the door and knocks on it lol. Nothing crazy but just a
funny saying from the week!
Saturday
we had interviews with the Mission President. I love President Varner,
he seems almost like a father and is really easy to talk to. We talked a
lot about planning and on making our plans according to good, better
and best. He had some pretty crazy insights to what those are! I was
actually surprised when he listed tracting as only good! He believes
that there are better and more effective ways to do missionary work and I
must say that I completely agree with him! Other ways of finding are
usually more effective and lead to more solid investigators! All in all I
love the interview.
After that we went to the
park as a district with our High Priest Group Leader. He had this idea
to go to the park with pizza, play Frisbee and invite others to eat and
play with us! It was honestly super fun and pretty effective! We go to
talk to so many people about what we are doing and why we are here! If
nothing else we planted some seeds and that is just as important as
anything!
Well I think that is it for this week! I hope everything is going well and that you are finding reasons to smile every day!
Con amor,
Elder Nathan Stoddard
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